LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A San Francisco man has been arrested for attempted murder for his part in a June 2013 home invasion and shooting in Clearlake Oaks.
Gregory Pierre Elarms, 29, was arrested on July 2 by the Lake County Sheriff's Office, more than a year after he is alleged to have taken part in a violent home invasion at the home of Ronnie and Janeane Bogner.
The Bogners' adult son, Jacob, was shot and pistol-whipped during the robbery.
Elarms is being held in the Lake County Jail on $1 million bail.
“We’re just happy. We’re just relieved,” Janeane Bogner said of Elarms' arrest in an interview with Lake County News on Tuesday.
On the morning of June 26, 2013, Elarms and four accomplices – including his half-brother, Dion Andre Davis II – are alleged to have gone to the Bogners' home after Ronnie Bogner had left for work and forced their way through the front door as Janeane Bogner fought to lock them out.
She and her two young grandchildren hid, and it's alleged that Jacob Bogner was shot through his bedroom door as he struggled to keep the suspects out of the room.
He was struck in the left leg above the knee and then pistol-whipped before the suspects took handguns and Janeane Bogners' Cadillac Escalade and fled. The totaled Escalade later was found abandoned down a steep embankment near Clearlake Oaks.
Later that same day, after they allegedly shot at Clearlake Police officers and were involved in a standoff, authorities arrested Davis, Tyler Christopher Gallon and and Sean Douglas Foss of Clearlake, and San Franciscan Jenaya Drevelyn Jelinek.
Foss was a former employee of the Bogners' company, Weed Tech.
While those four were arrested, Janeane Bogner had insisted that there had been a fifth person involved, a black male adult with long dreadlocks whose hoodie she had pulled back in the struggle at her front door.
Jacob Bogner, now 33, was flown to Enloe Medical Center in Chico where he underwent surgery for the wound to his leg.
He's got a stainless steel rod in his leg, and can't bend his leg or squat because of the longterm impact of his injury, his mother said.
Noting that her son handled the situation with courage, she added, “It’s just one more thing that Jacob’s had in his life.”
On Sept. 12, San Francisco Police officers arrested Dexter Lee Currington of San Francisco, who authorities believed at the time was the fifth suspect but who didn't exactly match Bogner's description.
Currington, Davis, Foss, Gallon and Jelinek would all be indicted in the case by a criminal grand jury District Attorney Don Anderson convened in the case last August.
However, in March Anderson dropped the case against Currington after additional investigation revealed he was not the fifth suspect, as Lake County News has reported.
Anderson said that investigators received additional information linking Elarms to the case, with witnesses also identifying him as being in the area.
He was not implicated by Currington, Anderson added. Currington was aware that Elarms was Davis' half-brother but the information he shared with detectives didn't include placing Elarms in Lake County at the time of the home invasion.
With his long dreadlocks, Elarms matches Bogner's description of the fifth suspect. He's also older than Currington, who is in his early 20s; Bogner said she had told authorities that the man she struggled with looked older than Currington.
Elarms, said Anderson, “has an extensive criminal history.”
Meanwhile, Jelinek has pleaded out in the case and will be testifying against some of her co-defendants Anderson said.
While indicted together, Anderson said the other three defendants – Davis, Foss and Gallon – are all expected to be tried separately, although plea agreements for all of them have been proposed.
“We've made offers but it's nothing they want to consider taking,” Anderson said.
The trial of Davis is tentatively scheduled to begin in August. A visiting judge is being assigned due to the Bogners' acquaintance with the local superior court judges, all of whom have recused themselves from presiding over the trials.
Davis, Foss and Gallon all face charges of attempted murder, robbery, burglary of an inhabited residence, assault with a firearm, assault with a semiautomatic firearm, grand theft of a firearm, conspiracy to commit robbery and burglary, assault with a semiautomatic weapon, the attempted murder of Lt. Tim Celli of the Clearlake Police Department, using threats of violence to deter an officer from doing their duties, vehicle theft and vandalism.
As the alleged shooter, Davis additionally is charged with personal use of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, mayhem, negligent discharge of a firearm and a felon in possession of a firearm.
All three remain in the Lake County Jail, with bail for Davis set at $1 million, and bail for Gallon and Foss each at $500,000, according to jail records.
Janeane Bogner said she, her son and her husband are all set to testify in Davis' trial in August.
Noting that she and her family continue to be fearful and no longer feel safe, she said she's not looking forward to the trial.
“You're not a victim just once,” Bogner said. “You’re a victim again and again and again until it’s over.”
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